Growing a Consultative and Parent Coaching-Focused Private Practice with Kelli Meyer
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What is the overall focus of this episode on consultative and parent‑coaching private practice?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Kelly Meyer is a speech language pathologist with a unique approach to her private practice in that she doesn't provide any direct therapy. Her consultative private practice called the speech scoop was created during COVID when Kelly started recording videos to guide parents and uploading them to YouTube. This has gained significant traction ever since, and now she hasn't looked back. In this episode, Kelly discusses her role of offering consultations and coaching to support parents. Kelly's approach extends beyond direct therapy, focusing on empowering parents with knowledge and tools that they can use daily.
She also discusses how she's built this super cool business model for herself and how it's a really unique combination of parent education and coaching, as well as she offers toy company consultations. school contracting and gets income from her YouTube videos and social media influencing. If you've been thinking about starting a private practice and want to use a consultative and or parent coaching model, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned. I'm Jenna Castro-Kasbon, speech language pathologist, business coach, and creator of the Start Your Private Practice System. And I'm on a mission to turn stuck SLPs into successful private practitioners. If you're tired of dealing with high productivity requirements, high caseload sizes, and low pay, it's time to take control of your professional, personal, and financial life and finally get the freedom, flexibility, and financial abundance that you deserve by working with private clients in your own practice.
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So hey Kennedy, how's a good one? Jenna, nice to see you. I feel like I've known you forever. I know.
And I'm just so excited to have you on because you're like a pretty cool guest. Because I one of the things I love to do is to show people that there are so many different ways to have a private practice. So thank you in advance for highlighting yet another way that people can do this.
Yeah, totally. That's so true. What's unique about my private practice is that I don't do any direct therapy. Well, but and you know
That's so funny because there's so many people who are like, I still like being a speech phythologist. I still kind of like this profession and everything else, but I want to do things a little bit differently. So before we get into how things look in your business right now, can you please share with our listeners and viewers kind of how you got into the field and then when did you start thinking about doing something a little different?
Sure. So I got into the field 10 years ago. It was after I had my daughter. So she was three. And she actually needed speech therapy. So it's full circle now. And I remember being a parent and thinking, There's no resources available. Like even YouTube 13 years ago, 10 years ago, wasn't as big as it is now. So yeah, that's whenever I was like, okay, like this is something I could go into. And so now here I am, almost 11 years later.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the overall focus of this episode on consultative and parent‑coaching private practice?
0:00–5:35
2
How did Kelli Meyer get started in speech‑language pathology and what inspired her shift to parent consulting?
5:35–11:16
3
What challenges did COVID‑19 create and how did Kelli pivot to a YouTube‑based consultation model?
11:16–17:09
4
How does Kelli’s consultative practice differ from traditional direct therapy for children?
17:09–24:52
5
What are the main revenue streams in Kelli’s business (YouTube, school contracts, toy consulting, etc.)?
24:52–30:49
6
What does a typical day look like for Kelli balancing consultations, school contracts, and content creation?
30:49–36:46
7
What advice does Kelli give SLPs who want to transition to a parent‑coaching or consultative model?
36:46–42:17
8
How does Kelli envision the future of her practice and what next steps does she recommend for clinicians?
42:17–45:31
Speakers
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